Inside Apple’s eight year struggle to build a self-driving car
Meaningless demos, false hopes, map handicaps… and “the jogger incident” $AAPL
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Apple is trying to make their system work without HD maps. that led to all kinds of issue in silicon valley
key takeaways
Tesla is the ONLY company not making demoware. $TSLA
they’re trying to “infuse deep learning”. Shouldn’t it have been infused since the beginning?
self-driving companies have burned $30 billion
Cook refuses to commit to mass production of the vehicle
Federighi is skeptical
Apple is burning a billion dollars a year on this
initial design was for a minivan
great, another self-driving minivan
apple wanted to make the car out of glass
Ive wants a fully autonomous car
While Tesla was learning from the real world, Apple was hiring contractors to pretend to be pedestrians and cyclists. $AAPL $TSLA
Apple’s cars cost 1 million dollars each due to tons of hardware including LIDAR.
That’s 27 times more than what it costs to produce a Tesla running FSD. So 27 teslas or 1 apple car.
when all of that didn’t work they hired the guy @elonmusk fired from Tesla lol
one takeover per minute
deep learning is not unproven, it’s the only way to solve the problem 🤦
then everyone started resigning
current design is incredibly ugly apparently
one car almost ran over a jogger
they shut down testing, added the crosswalk to their HD map, and resumed.
if you’re too stupid to see how far ahead Tesla is on this I don’t know what to tell you.
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